Lord Bacon his prayer. A prayer for the student

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LORD BAG OX

HIS PRATER.

1 HOU^ 0 Father, who gavest the visible light as the first born of thjy creatures, and
didst pour info man the intellectual light as the top and consummation of ihjy luorkman-
ship, be pleased to protect and govern this ivork, which coming from thy goodness,
returneth to thy glory . 1 hou, after thou hadst reineiyed the ivorks which thy hands had
made, beheldest that every thing was very good, that thou didst rest with complacency
in them. But man reflecting on the ivorks which he Iiad made, saw that all was vanity
and vexation of spirit, and could by no means acquiesce in them. Wherefore if we
labour in thy works with the sweat of our brows, thou ruilt 7nake us partakers of thy
vision and thy sabbath. We humbly beg that this mind may be steadfastly in us ; and
that thou, by our hands, and also by the hands of others, on ryhom thou shall bestow the
same spirit, will please to convey a largess of new alms to thy family of mankind.
These things jve commend to thy everlasting love, by our Jesus, thy Christ, God wiih
us. Amen.

A PRATER FOR THE STUDEXT.
BY LORD BACON.

I 0 God the Father^ God the Word, God the Spirit, we pour forth most humble and
heartjr supplications, that he remembering the calamities of mankind, and the pilgri-
mage of this our life, in which we wear out daj^s few and evil, would please to open^
to us new refreshments out of the fountain of his goodness, for the alleviating of our
miseries. This also, we humbly and earnestly beg, that human things may not prejudice
such as are divine; neither that from the unlocking from the gates of sense, and the
kindling of a greater natural light, ajvy thing of incredulity; or intellectual night,
may arise in our minds towards divine mysteries : but rather Iry our mind thoroughly
cleansed and purged from fancy and vanities^ and yet subject and perfectly given up
to the divine oracles, there may be given unto faith, the things that are faith's. Amen.

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